Google Pledges $50 Million to Fight COVID-19; Launches Dedicated Coronavirus Hub

Google has pledged $50 one thousand thousand to help fight the coronavirus pandemic. On a newly-launched website about all things COVID-19, the company said that a role of that $50 million pledge is $5M in matching donations to the Un Foundation's COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund for the World Health Organization (WHO).

The site, which Google is positioning as its dedicated COVID-19 hub, can be accessed at google.com/covid19. It comes with important information about the virus from accredited sources, like the Earth Health Organisation (WHO) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The site provides guidelines on how to prevent the disease past following proficient hygiene habits similar washing your hands. It likewise lists the symptoms and warns people that there's no specific treatment for it at the moment. The site too advises people to follow 'social distancing' and self-quarantine themselves if they experience they may have contracted the virus.

There are also various videos on the same topics from the aforementioned sources, every bit well as data and insights from Google Trends, including a full-fledged COVID-19 map that shows the affected locations and the verbal number of cases being reported from around the world. You tin admission Google'due south dedicated COVID-nineteen hub from the link above.

You can too donate to the global coronavirus response by clicking on the blue 'Donate' button on the page. 100 percent of your donation will get to the United nations Foundation for the World Health Organization. Google says that it volition match $ii for every $1 donated to the cause by its users.

It's worth noting that Google launched its dedicated COVID-nineteen hub afterwards much back and forth betwixt the visitor and The states President, Donald Trump, about whether the search behemothic was building a website with information about the novel coronavirus. While Trump last calendar week announced that Google was building such a site, the company itself didn't originally programme to practise then, just seemingly inverse its mind at a later stage.